Biblatex – How to Add a Prefix to Citations and References in LaTeX?

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I am looking to add a prefix, say P to the reference list, so:

(1) the list will appear like

References

[P1] …

[P2] ..

(2) when I cite them they appear as [P1] also.

I added the following to the preamble

\makeatletter

\def\@biblabel#1{[P#1]}

\makeatother

but this achieves the first requirement, not the second. So now when I cite the citation still appears as [1].

How to remedy this?

Thanks

Best Answer

This solution works only with older version (3.4) of biblatex

I think that you are looking for the following solution:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[backend=bibtex]{biblatex}


\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
  @book{lamport1994latex,
    title={LATEX: a document preparation system: user's guide and reference manual},
    author={Lamport, Leslie},
    year={1994},
    publisher={Addison-wesley}
  }
  @book{mittelbach2004latex,
    title={The LATEX companion},
    author={Mittelbach, Frank and Goossens, Michel and Braams, Johannes and Carlisle, David and Rowley, Chris},
    year={2004},
    publisher={Addison-Wesley Professional}
  }
\end{filecontents*}

\pagenumbering{gobble}

\begin{document}

\cite{lamport1994latex} is the one we started our journey with. Then
we also got~\cite{mittelbach2004latex}.  Both
\cite{lamport1994latex,mittelbach2004latex} are good ones.

\printbibliography[prefixnumbers=P]

\end{document}

For details, please see page 76 of the biblatex documentation.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=verbose-ibid,backend=biber,maxbibnames=999]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\makeatletter
\renewbibmacro*{cite:full}{%
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    \usedriver
      {\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{default}}
      {\thefield{entrytype}}}%
  \usebibmacro{shorthandintro}}
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Lorem\footcite{aksin} ipsum\footcite{herrmann} dolor\footcite{aksin} sit\footcite{herrmann}.

\printbibliography
\end{document}

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A possible trick is to wrap the citation in the abstract in a \IfFileExists{\jobname.bbl}{}{} test, and use the following workflow

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pdflatex <filename>

You can use array to specify the workflow.

\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
  @article{article1,
    author = {Author 1},
    title  = {Title 1},
    year   = 1993,
    month  = may,
    pages  = {10--15}
  }

  @inproceedings{article2,
    author = {Author 2},
    booktitle  = {Conference Title},
    title  = {Article 2},
    year   = 1975,
    month  = aug,
    pages  = {120--125}
  }

  @book{book1,
    author = {Autor 3},
    title = {Book Title},
    publishe = {Publisher},
    year = 2005
  }
}
\end{filecontents}

\usepackage{cite}


\begin{document}
\title{MWE}

\maketitle

\begin{abstract}
  This article \IfFileExists{\jobname.bbl}{\cite{article2}}{*} is
  numbered as [1] while I would like it to be numbered (and 
  referenced to) as [2].
\end{abstract}

In fact, \cite{article1} is the one that I want to be numbered as [1], then
\cite{article2} as [2] and finally \cite{book1} as [3] as they appear in this
order in the article body. 

\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}

After the first run you get:

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After running bibtex and the second pdflatex run you have

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and finally:

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